West Ham vice chairman Karren Brady and former professional footballer Robbie Savage have teamed up to lead a ‘Dream Team’ of eleven high profile football experts to launch npower’s ‘What’s Your Goal? 2012’.

Before getting stuck into the Board, I would just make the point that the club paid a group of players in excess of £48million last season , and they took us down. That’s £8m more than Gianfranco Zola’s squad earned.

Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t have made this one. Not that I expect much sympathy from you lot but, having managed to pick up Preview Percy’s heavy cold during the week, I felt about as much like travelling to an away match as Paolo Di Canio often did.

Last Sunday afternoon saw West Ham’s first and final FA Cup appearance of the season as Chris O’Grady’s late winner for Sheffield Wednesday sent us crashing out of a tournament that never really begun for Big Sam’s men.